MOSQUES OFFER FREE OXYGEN CYLINDERS IN MUMBAI
Several mosques in the city and the suburbs have begun to provide oxygen cylinders to Covid-19 patients and, in turn, take some pressure off the hospitals. The free oxygen comes with kits that can be fitted at home for Covid-19 patients whose oxygen saturation level is low. Initiated by NGO Red Crescent Society of India, oxygen cylinders are being provided by several mosques in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, including the city, Mumbra, Mira Road, Kalyan and Bhiwandi. “Since not all Covid-19 patients are getting beds in hospitals and many are being treated at home, we thought of making oxygen available to those who need it. It is being provided for free to people, irrespective of religion, caste or creed. This is our united fight against the pandemic and we thought of doing our bit to help the needy,” said Arshad Siddiqui, chairman, Red Crescent Society of India.
PYARE KHAN GIVES OXYGEN WORTH RS 85 LAKH TO COVID HOSPITALS
Self-made billionaire Pyare Khan from Nagpur, Maharashtra has spent Rs 85 lakh to ensure 400 metric tonnes of medical liquid oxygen reaches government hospitals in and around Nagpur at a time when the whole country is reeling under a shortage of oxygen and a surge in Covid-19 infections. Pyare Khan’s initiative includes 116 oxygen concentrators, which he aims to donate to AIIMS, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and Indira Gandhi Government Medical College & Hospital (IGCMCH) in Nagpur. Pyare Khan paid three times more to hire two cryogenic gas tankers from Bengaluru. As the demand for oxygen soared amid the increasing death rate in Nagpur, Pyare Khan paid Rs 14 lakh more than the market price for the tankers.
AMU TO INSTALL OXYGEN GENERATION PLANT
In order to overcome the shortage of Oxygen supply and augment its production, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) will set up an oxygen generation plant. According to the Registrar of the university Mr Abdul Hamid IPS, the Vice Chancellor Professor Tariq Mansoor has sanctioned an amount of 1.41 crore and it will enable AMU to cater to the growing need of oxygen in Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College. It will also help in refilling of oxygen cylinders. The process of installation of oxygen plant is expected to be completed in three to four weeks.
‘COMPLETE LACK OF SUPERVISION’: COURT ON DELHI VIOLENCE
A local court in Delhi on April 26 rebuked the police for the way it has conducted the investigation in the case related to the violence that broke out in the national Capital in February 2020, reported The Indian Express. The Karkardooma district court noted a “complete lack of supervision of the investigation by the senior police officers” in the cases. “I do not find any substance in the present petition filed by the state,” Judge Vinod Yadav said. “The investigating agency has evidently been found to be on the wrong side of law. This court has found in several cases of riots in the entire length and breadth of police stations in North-East Delhi that there was complete lack of supervision of the investigation(s) by the senior police officers of the district. The court rejected the Delhi Police’s review plea filed against a metropolitan magistrate’s order on registration of separate first information reports based on the complaints from the respondent, Nishar Ahmed.